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obliviousally_ljToday brought me great lulz.
We're at Walmart picking up things like socks and drink. I'm down the chip/pop aisle grabbing something to snack on and TJ has disappeared to get some Sprite. Suddenly, I hear someone say my name. I look around, confused and thinking it was TJ.
It was not TJ.
It was my ex from junior high, Shawn.
Now, see, I don't mind running into Shawn. He's a nice guy but I've been so over him after high school. I was seriously infatuated with him and he didn't do a whole lot to shoo me away despite dating a friend of mine at the time. I was pretty disgusted by this when I found out they'd been a couple for quite a few months while I was hanging out with Shawn and playing the hopeful game. Now, of course, I'm past that and I'm cool with him. But we really don't have much in common anymore or much to talk about. We've obviously gone very different directions in our lives. I never really 'grew up' and he got married and had a kid.
So I stop and I chat for a moment. Ask what he's been up to (nothing much, apparently). I tell him I'm going to college. Normal small talk. Then, out of nowhere: "Yeah, I'm getting a divorce.".
WELP.
I can't say I'm SURPRISED, of course. Him and Cristina are only as old as TJ and I and...really...getting married and having a kid that young is well... I think it's dumb. I offer my sympathies (or congrats, because I'm never sure which it should be). From the look on his face it seems like he wasn't really for the seperation. I could form some interesting opinions on that but, well, I'll be nice for a moment.
Now, see, this is very typical for how Shawn and I run into each other. We stop, we chat. Previously, it'd always been awkward because I could never pinpoint where my feelings were for him. But there'd always been this bit of tension there. When we hung out in high school it was always doing stupid stuff, things Cristina always found dumb or things his other friends and girlfriends he'd had thought were stupid (galavanting around the Waterworks, sitting around and bullshitting, etc.). I always had the feeling Cristina (and even Velora) had him on a short leash and he knew hanging out with me (on Porter St, I was the only other girl who wanted to hang out with him. Though, I later discovered a lot of the girls found him cute, but unapproachable.) meant he didn't have to live up to whatever his girlfriends wanted him to be. I don't know if this was specifically the case, but that's how I always saw it.
So running into him and being informed (without and prompting) that he's getting a divorce just sounded like an invitation. I also don't think he knows TJ and I are together. Despite the fact that EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I see him, I'm with TJ. So either he knows we're together, or he's daft. But I'm pretty sure he knows.
This is one of those things that inflates my ego hardcore. I don't know if it's just that I'm one of the only girls left in town that he used to hang out with or what, but at this point it just brings me great lulz. Plus, I feel good because, hey, I've been in a solid relationship for the last 10+ years. Yeah, we have our difficulties, but what couple doesn't.
We're at Walmart picking up things like socks and drink. I'm down the chip/pop aisle grabbing something to snack on and TJ has disappeared to get some Sprite. Suddenly, I hear someone say my name. I look around, confused and thinking it was TJ.
It was not TJ.
It was my ex from junior high, Shawn.
Now, see, I don't mind running into Shawn. He's a nice guy but I've been so over him after high school. I was seriously infatuated with him and he didn't do a whole lot to shoo me away despite dating a friend of mine at the time. I was pretty disgusted by this when I found out they'd been a couple for quite a few months while I was hanging out with Shawn and playing the hopeful game. Now, of course, I'm past that and I'm cool with him. But we really don't have much in common anymore or much to talk about. We've obviously gone very different directions in our lives. I never really 'grew up' and he got married and had a kid.
So I stop and I chat for a moment. Ask what he's been up to (nothing much, apparently). I tell him I'm going to college. Normal small talk. Then, out of nowhere: "Yeah, I'm getting a divorce.".
WELP.
I can't say I'm SURPRISED, of course. Him and Cristina are only as old as TJ and I and...really...getting married and having a kid that young is well... I think it's dumb. I offer my sympathies (or congrats, because I'm never sure which it should be). From the look on his face it seems like he wasn't really for the seperation. I could form some interesting opinions on that but, well, I'll be nice for a moment.
Now, see, this is very typical for how Shawn and I run into each other. We stop, we chat. Previously, it'd always been awkward because I could never pinpoint where my feelings were for him. But there'd always been this bit of tension there. When we hung out in high school it was always doing stupid stuff, things Cristina always found dumb or things his other friends and girlfriends he'd had thought were stupid (galavanting around the Waterworks, sitting around and bullshitting, etc.). I always had the feeling Cristina (and even Velora) had him on a short leash and he knew hanging out with me (on Porter St, I was the only other girl who wanted to hang out with him. Though, I later discovered a lot of the girls found him cute, but unapproachable.) meant he didn't have to live up to whatever his girlfriends wanted him to be. I don't know if this was specifically the case, but that's how I always saw it.
So running into him and being informed (without and prompting) that he's getting a divorce just sounded like an invitation. I also don't think he knows TJ and I are together. Despite the fact that EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I see him, I'm with TJ. So either he knows we're together, or he's daft. But I'm pretty sure he knows.
This is one of those things that inflates my ego hardcore. I don't know if it's just that I'm one of the only girls left in town that he used to hang out with or what, but at this point it just brings me great lulz. Plus, I feel good because, hey, I've been in a solid relationship for the last 10+ years. Yeah, we have our difficulties, but what couple doesn't.
